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God's Gift of Love offers the opportunity and challenge to appreciate and live in the amazing gift of God's love by studying the Revised Common Lectionary readings designated for Advent, Year A. Donna Schaper helps readers experience the blessings of Jesus' birth and Christ's second coming in the fullness of time. A Leader Guide by Nan Duerling, with Bible background and suggestions for group activities, is included in this book.

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Advent is a busy and sometimes stressful time of year, but in Gods Gift of Love, Donna Schaper reminds us that Advent also gives us an opportunity to slow down, recognize that Gods love has found us, and live in peace. By changing our attitude and our understanding of time, we can prepare for and look forward to the coming of Jesus Christ. We can be ready to conceive Gods love in us and reconceive our lives and our behavior toward others. Schapers writing helps us understand that love is not a sentiment but a way of life that emerges from the knowledge that in Jesus Christ, we experience Gods love.

Gods Gift of Love offers the opportunity and challenge to appreciate and live in the amazing gift of Gods love by studying the Revised Common Lectionary readings designated for Advent, Year A. Donna Schaper helps readers experience the blessings of Jesus birth and Christs second coming in the fullness of time.

A Leader Guide by Nan Duerling, with Bible background and suggestions for group activities, is included in this book.

Author Bio

Donna Schaper serves as Senior Minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. She has also served churches in Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. She is the principal in a consulting firm called Bricks Without Straw, which shows not-for-profits how to raise energy and money and capacity, and has been involved with a series of turn-around congregations and a host of social-action issues. In addition to serving as pastor, she has written several books. Donna lives in New York, New York.
Nan Duerling holds a bachelor's degree in English and secondary education from Towson State University, a masters in education and curriculum development from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in literature from American University. Nan is formerly an adjunct faculty member of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. For more than 20 years, she has written youth and adult curriculum for several denominations. She has been general editor of The New International Lesson Annual since 1995. Nan's hometown is Cambridge, Maryland .

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